PUSHING DAISIES Sneak Peek (Video)

I was just about to post all about the fantastic PUSHING DAISIES panel that I attended this past weekend at Comic-Con, but then it hit me. Although you’ve heard me praise the show time and time again, many of you might not have any idea about what the show is even about. So before we move forward, please take a minute to check out a special sneak peek of the ABC’s new forensic fairy tale, PUSHING DAISIES.

I think probably goes without saying, but the video and accompanying description contain spoilers for the pilot episode.

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About PUSHING DAISIES…
From Bryan Fuller (“Heroes,” “Wonderfalls”) and Barry Sonnenfeld (“Men in Black”) comes a new series with an unprecedented blend of romance, fantasy and mystery, “Pushing Daisies,” a forensic fairytale about Ned, a young man with a very special gift. As a young boy Ned discovers that he can return the dead briefly back to life with just one touch. But his random gift isn’t without deadly consequences… as he soon finds out. (Continue reading at ThePieMaker.com)

Bill Simmons on Today’s TV

ESPN columnist (and a personal hero of mine) Bill Simmons talks to BostonNow.com about what he’s watching and what he’s avoiding on TV these days. And in case you are wondering why a sports columnist is talking about TV, then you probably haven’t read much of Bill Simmons work. This guy can’t hang with the best of us TV junkies.

How much non-sports television do you watch each week? What do you have season passed?
Bill Simmons: I’m ashamed of my TV habits because I watch way too much crap and not enough good stuff. At the same time, the TV industry is in a major slump - especially right now, the summer shows have just sucked. Couldn’t they throw us a bone and bring back Temptation Island or have a 90210 reunion show or something? They just keep trotting out more and more crap. (Oh, wait, Temptation Island and 90210 were crap, I forgot. But at least they were good crap!) Also, it’s so hard to get invested in one of these serial shows because you never know if the network will pull the plug - after what happened with Reunion, I’m scared off by any show that builds towards a cliffhanger. So what I’ve been doing is waiting to see if the show makes it, then catching up on DVD - that’s how I handled Friday Night Lights this summer, as well as Kidnapped, a show that actually did get canceled but works splendidly as a DVD purchase. (Click here to read the full interview)

AGE OF LOVE Recap: Cry Baby

Episode: Seven
Original Airdate: 7/30/07
GMMR Recapper: SB

Alright, I am not kidding you at all about this—the very first thing I wrote at the top of my notes was, “Mary’s gone, Jayanna’s gone … who am I going to hate the most now?” Surprise! It’s Jayanna.

I’ll backtrack. The four remaining women are sitting in the kitchen, obviously just back from the camping trip, and Maria asks Jen if she’s okay and tells her she looks like she just lost her best friend, which she did. Jen gives us a talking head where she says that if she didn’t know Mark, she’d hate him for what he did to her friend. And the fact that Jen loves Jayanna this much proves to me that she is at least as retarded as Megan, and maybe more.

Later, although how much later is unclear, there is a video in the room that the girls are supposed to watch. Maria calls the Kittens down and I think we’re all expecting it to be Mark, but no. It is Jayanna, after being dumped by Mark. She is “warning” the other girls about Amanda, and how she will go to Mark with things you say and twist them around, and how Amanda is so desperate for a man that she’ll stab anyone in the back. Jayanna again tries to play it like she gave Amanda advice, which is total BS, of course, and calls Amanda pathetic. This whole time, Megan and I are having basically the same reaction, which is a hybrid jaw-drop/shocked laughing. Amanda takes this remarkably well, and says when it’s over that she thinks Jayanna is pathetic. You and me both, sister. Maria seems totally unaffected by the whole thing, since I think she knows to take Jayanna with a grain of salt. And then there is Jen. She is clearly eating up every word and in her talking head, sounds like she is plotting revenge against Amanda.

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BIG BROTHER’s Nick Goes From HOT to WTF?

BIG BROTHER 8 houseguest Nick clearly held the title for hottest in the house. The eyes, the body, that hair, the accent…and did I mention the body?  But over this past week Nick has just fallen apart.  Check out a pic from earlier today to see Nick’s new look.

Just a reminder of the before…

To see a pic of what Nick looks like today, continue reading after the jump. (spoiler alert!)

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Krasinski, Bell, Fischer, Helms & More Make Hot Comedy List

Premiere.com just listed its 20 Hottest New Faces in Comedy list and a few of our TV favorites made the list. So just which TV stars are taking over the best comedy roles on the big screen?

Ed Helms
Age: 33
Comedy Credentials: The Daily Show, The Office
What’s So Funny? Knocked Up director and all-around comedy kingmaker Judd Apatow told Variety that Helms is a national treasure, even though “the nation does not know it yet,” when announcing that Helms will write and star in the buddy comedy A Whole New Hugh for Universal. So who are we to disagree? Helms has followed in the footsteps of his fellow Daily Show alum Steve Carell to both The Office on TV and Evan Almighty on the big screen, but will strike out on his own next year with supporting turns in Eddie Murphy’s Starship Dave and a cameo in Walk Hard.

Will Arnett
Age: 37
Comedy Credentials: Arrested Development, Blades of Glory
What’s So Funny? Ever since playing the incompetent magician Gob (pronounced Jobe) on Arrested Development, Arnett has turned the lovable jerk into an art form as the white-collar criminal Nelson Biederman IV in Let’s Go to Prison and the evil ice skater Stranz Van Waldenberg in Blades of Glory. Arnett isn’t going soft any time soon, as his turn as a sleazy boyfriend in Hot Rod attests, but the actor is getting a chance to show his more sensitive side — sort of — in the pregnancy comedy The Brothers Solomon, before re-teaming with Will Ferrell in the basketball comedy Semi-Pro.

Kristen Bell
Age: 27
Comedy Credentials: Veronica Mars, Reefer Madness
What’s So Funny? Television’s loss is cinema’s gain since Veronica Mars’s bubbly alter ego is making her move to the big screen — though it won’t be a real stretch. In the Judd Apatow–produced Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Bell is a TV star who ditches her boyfriend only to end up running into him with her new boyfriend in Hawaii. She’ll also play to her Veronica Mars fanbase as a geeky gal-Friday in the upcoming Fanboys. Bell’s first Hollywood horror film may not have had a Pulse, but then the acid-tongued actress came out swinging and singing in the subversive musical Reefer Madness. Expect big things from the 5′1″ star.

Jenna Fischer
Age: 33
Comedy Credentials: Blades of Glory, Lollilove
What’s So Funny? The Office star passed the big-screen test in March when she successfully translated the winsomeness of her lowly TV secretary Pam Beesley to a shy henchwoman in Blades of Glory. But Hollywood has bigger plans for Fischer: The actress is already committed to The Brothers Solomon, the faux rockumentary Walk Hard, and a role in Quebec, a film about two grocery-store middle managers fighting over a promotion. And future job prospects shouldn’t be a concern for Fischer; her directorial debut, Lollilove, about a Hollywood housewife’s attempts at charity, is a comic gem.

John Krasinski
Age: 31 (nope)
Comedy Credentials: The Office
What’s So Funny? Krasinski interned at Late Night With Conan O’Brien before becoming primetime TV’s sexiest everyguy on The Office, so his comedy cred isn’t in question. The unassuming star who‘s made an art of raising eyebrows as Jim on The Office will go highbrow later this year with the George Clooney–directed romantic comedy Leatherheads and his own directorial debut, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, based on the amusingly anthropological short-story collection of David Foster Wallace.

Check out the others who made the list: Amy Adams, Malin Ackerman, Elizabeth Banks, Dane Cook, Anna Faris, Dan Fogler, Bill Hader, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Justin Long, Seth Rogan, Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg, Joe Swanberg, Justin Theroux. (Click here to read up on each of these funny faces)

Thanks to Joanna for the tip.

What to Watch…Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Just wondering where July went? This month flew by. At least we are that much closer to the start of the Fall TV season.  There’s some good TV on tonight.  I hope you will all tune in for the second episode of DAMAGES. And of course BIG BROTHER is always some great guilty pleasure TV.  Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!!

Damages
Mounting pressures prompt Frobisher to contemplate extreme measures as Ellen delivers her friend Katie as a key witness. But Patty has suspicions about Katie’s testimony. Katie: Anastasia Griffith..

Big Brother
Tonight is the Power of Veto competition. Who will win? And will the winner use his/her power to save either Jen or Kail from the chopping block. If you’d like to know, head over to GMMR’s Big Brother 8 spoilers.

The Singing Bee
A karaoke-inspired competition in which contestants must finish the lyrics to popular songs once the band stops playing.

MOONLIGHT’s Alex O’Loughlin Looks Like…

You know when you see a friend’s baby for the first time and people always say, “look doesn’t he have his father’s eyes, and his mother’s ears?” Yeah, I can never tell. I just nod in agreement at the resemblance I’m supposed to be seeing.

I’m explaining all this because I’m am having one of those moments that I just can’t help but recognize the strong resemblance MOONLIGHT actor Alex O’Loughlin has to Patrick Dempsey and Jon Stewart. Am I making this up or do you see it too?

I also have another shot of Alex where he looks just like Rodrigo Santoro (I’ll be posting that one later tomorrow).

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